Well, hello there Mr Stork!
Check it out! I'm an Uncle again! My brother and his wife brought a baby boy into the world this afternoon. All are well, I'm to understand.
His first two children were little miracles because my Bro and his wife had to go through such trying fertility assistance and ongoing care with the pregnancies (including daily shots!) to make it happen. But this little one just came Surprise---doubly unexpected. Still, just as exciting.
Read more about the last few days leading up to it here.
On that note, I heard a beautiful "birds and bees" story this week end. We were talking to the friend from church (the one who had labeled us hippies) at a get together this weekend when she told us this story of her kids.
One of her younger boys had come up to her and asked, "Mom, I know that babies come from mommies tummies. But how do they get out?"
Well, being a good mom, she set down and calmly described how it happened. Not too graphically, she said, but she let him know straight how it took place. She said he was a kind of taken aback, and perhaps a little grossed out, and sat there for a second processing this new information.
Then he became concerned for his little sister. He asked his mom if his little sister realized what would happen to her someday? (Which we thought was an amazingly sensitive thought for such a young little guy.)
She said that yes, she did. Apparently she and her daughter frequently watch the birth shows on some lifestyle channel on cable.
At that moment the little girl came up to the kitchen table. Upon her arrival, one of two told her that they were talking about babies and asked her to tell what she understood about how they come out.
She was reported to say, "Well, babies either come out through the vagina, or the make a cut in the tummy and they come out that way. But if they can't come out through the vagina or a cut in the tummy, then you go to the airport and get a brown one."
At that statement, of course, there looks of confusion between the mom and her son as to what on earth this little girl could possibly be talking about.
Then the mom remembered; the last episode of their baby show was about a mom who adopted a baby from overseas!
Our friend was still laughing tears down her cheeks about that when she was telling us days later.
His first two children were little miracles because my Bro and his wife had to go through such trying fertility assistance and ongoing care with the pregnancies (including daily shots!) to make it happen. But this little one just came Surprise---doubly unexpected. Still, just as exciting.
Read more about the last few days leading up to it here.
On that note, I heard a beautiful "birds and bees" story this week end. We were talking to the friend from church (the one who had labeled us hippies) at a get together this weekend when she told us this story of her kids.
One of her younger boys had come up to her and asked, "Mom, I know that babies come from mommies tummies. But how do they get out?"
Well, being a good mom, she set down and calmly described how it happened. Not too graphically, she said, but she let him know straight how it took place. She said he was a kind of taken aback, and perhaps a little grossed out, and sat there for a second processing this new information.
Then he became concerned for his little sister. He asked his mom if his little sister realized what would happen to her someday? (Which we thought was an amazingly sensitive thought for such a young little guy.)
She said that yes, she did. Apparently she and her daughter frequently watch the birth shows on some lifestyle channel on cable.
At that moment the little girl came up to the kitchen table. Upon her arrival, one of two told her that they were talking about babies and asked her to tell what she understood about how they come out.
She was reported to say, "Well, babies either come out through the vagina, or the make a cut in the tummy and they come out that way. But if they can't come out through the vagina or a cut in the tummy, then you go to the airport and get a brown one."
At that statement, of course, there looks of confusion between the mom and her son as to what on earth this little girl could possibly be talking about.
Then the mom remembered; the last episode of their baby show was about a mom who adopted a baby from overseas!
Our friend was still laughing tears down her cheeks about that when she was telling us days later.
posted by Will at 7:35 PM
2 Comments:
oh my gosh - that is so freakin fabulous and cute! :)
Congratulations Will! That's such great news. I hope everyone's doing well. :-)
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